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@clashreport Oh really? That’s very rich!

French President Macron says that anti-France narratives in Africa are being pushed by foreign powers, calling “the Russians and others” the “real colonizers of the 21st century.”

“We have significant resources of coal. It be the height of folly to think that we can industrialize and abandon that strategic resource” - Minister of Electricity and Energy

Why is Helen Suzeman Foundation, Corruption Watch,Freedom Under Law,Afriforum,Gift of the Givers,Save SA, CASAC all quiet over Phala Phala

Oliver Tambo; leader of the African National Congress; arrives at Pearson Airport in Canada, 1987. He was greeted by Ontario native leader Gord Peters. Tambo met Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in Ottawa to press for stiffer sanctions against Pretoria. Credit: Craig Robertson/Toronto Star

A review application brought years after the underlying events inevitably raises serious delay concerns. Constitutional review mechanisms are not meant to remain indefinitely dormant only to be activated once political pressure intensifies. Courts generally require reviews to be instituted within a reasonable time, particularly where prolonged delay risks undermining institutional certainty and constitutional accountability. That is precisely the constitutional difficulty. The Section 89 panel process was preliminary in nature , it existed only to determine whether sufficient prima facie grounds justified a fuller inquiry. How then does one seek to finally review or neutralise a preliminary accountability mechanism before the broader constitutional process fully unfolds, especially after additional investigative material was later declassified by IPID? At minimum, the emergence of new evidence complicates any claim that the factual and evidentiary landscape remained static or conclusively settled. YOH CYRIL 😭😭🤣🤣🤣

BREAKING: Health minister Zubir Ahmed has resigned from Sir Keir Starmer's government, becoming the fourth minister today to step down. Sky's @joncraig reports. trib.al/bLhUHwZ 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

🔴WTF "Mbalula is very quick to talk in circumstances were people find themselves in a similar situation, he will scream all over the place, to a point were he even tells those close to you, not to go to court to support you, or they will be fired" @MbalulaFikile he must explain 🤣🤣

@Stellarated @VusiThembekwayo This is great! A leader who is ready and willing to account to the public will always score positive points. No excuses, just pointed responses. Keep up the spirit of accountability. May it also rub off to the colleagues.👌

@VusiThembekwayo Yes Vusi, accountability is not an attack & we are not asking to be cheered, we are asking to be measured on what we do. Let me answer your questions directly, using the same data tabled to the PC and the Select Committee on DSBD making this is information mostly publicly

Minister, believe it or not, we actually want you to succeed. Not because we support you, but because the youth of this country are DESPERATE for jobs and dignity. So when we ask for accountability, it's not an attack. Now that we got that preview out of the way, Minister, can you update us on the “Spaza Shop” fund? 1. How much was deployed? 2. To whom? 3. Which asset management company was given the mandate to manage that fund? 4. How were they selected? 5. What's the performance of the fund thus far? 6. Where are the Spaza shops & the underlying Spaza shop owners that your fund has assisted? Asilwi. Siyabuza. We will wait in the comments for feedback.

@shufflesdu Gwede’s no voice of reason, unfortunately. He’s just speaking for his stomach (and there’s no limit to that). He’s a factionalist, like many. He’s co-overseen as National Chairperson, the systematic ANC’s demise & degradation from a +62% party to a 40% party dependent on the DA.

Gwede vs Solly 🤣 "My leader is shooting from the hip"

South African academic, anti-apartheid activist and poet - Prof Mazisi Kunene, was born on this day in 1930. Kunene is best known for his translation of the epic Zulu poem Emperor Shaka the Great. While in exile from South Africa's apartheid regime, Kunene was an active supporter and organiser of the anti-apartheid movement in Europe, Africa and America. He later taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. He became South Africa's first poet laureate. Image Source: Poklekowski/Getty Images

Beyond his well-earned wealth, what Alhaji Dangote has done for the mindset, self-belief & determination of Africa’s entrepreneurs will need an entire dissertation. We will ALL never be the same after this. VT

@MondliGungubel_ The assumed fugitive led the ANC & kept it a +62% electoral vote party, yet the one you defend has dropped it to a 40% party (assuming the 40% is correct), & that’s why you were demoted to a DM of a department you led as Minister. Respect citizens first before individual loyalty.

Just to my friend Nchabeleng of the MKP our organization is run by a leader who subjected himself for his entire life to the laws of the democratic RSA not by a more than 20 year justice and court trial fugitive

JUST IN: The #MadlangaCommission does not intend to recall General Shadrack Sibiya to provide furter oral evidence before the inquiry. @Newzroom405

The unemployment rate is 43.7%. There are 13m unemployed people. The unemployment rate is 54.8% in the NW and 54.4% in the Eastern Cape. There is no plan to confront the crisis. How much more evidence do we need that the neoliberal macroeconomic policies will never work,?

Lamine Yamal waved a Palestinian flag during Barcelona's open-top victory parade to celebrate winning LaLiga.

Putin announces that next-generation Sarmat ICBM will be deployed by end of 2026, after successful test. "It is the most powerful missile system in the world... The total power of the delivered warhead is over 4 times greater than the power of any existing Western analogue. Secondly, and most importantly, the missile can move not only along a ballistic trajectory, but also along a suborbital trajectory, which, thirdly, allows for a range of over 35,000 km while simultaneously doubling its accuracy characteristics. Finally, it has the ability to overcome all existing and prospective missile defense systems."